When Steve Jobs took the stage and announced the iPad, he basically soothsayed the inevitable product line-up of knock-offs at this year’s Computex expo in Taipei: tablets, tablets and more tablets. If anyone was going to quickly counter the iPad, though, it was going to be netbook-manufacturers Asus, who have been sinisterly teasing their own tablet Eee netbooks for months. Now they’re here as two different products: the Asus EeePad and the Asus Eee Tablet.

The EeePad comes in two flavors: the 12-inch EP21 and the tinier 10-inch EP101-TC. The EP121 features a CULV Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a webcam, USB port, Windows 7 and an iPad-caliber battery life of up to 10 hours. The price is expected to retail somewhere between $399 and $499, but this is still a product that is a long way out: Asus doesn’t expect it to ship until Q1 of 2011, which gives Apple quite the headstart.

Then there’s the Eee Tablet. Strangely, it’s not a tablet per se, but an e-reader (raising the obvious question: why not EeeReader, Asus?) Sporting a 64-level gray scale LCD (not e-ink) display capable of a resolution of 1024×768 and 2450 dpi input sensitivity, it’s an ideal device for taking notes or making doodles. The Eee Tablet also boasts a 2 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot and a battery rated for up to 10 hours… notable brevity for an e-reader, but the lack of an e-ink display is the culprit here.

Price is expected to be between $199 and $299, and the Eee Tablet should launch in September.